EUGENE – Sporting its eighth top-five ranking this season, the University of Oregon volleyball team (22-3, 13-3) repeated its position in this week’s 12th AVCA Coaches Poll of the season.

The Ducks come off their second straight season sweep of its desert Pac-12 rivals (and ever). UO beat Arizona State by a 3-2 count for its 10th straight series win, while it posted its fourth straight 3-0 victory in the series vs. Arizona.

UO was one of five Pac-12 schools spotted in the top eight overall this week with No. 1 Stanford, No. 5 UCLA, No. 6 Washington and No. 8 USC.

Among those five teams, Stanford, remained the same this edition; UCLA climbed one spot; Washington fell one position; and Oregon and USC stayed the same.

One other Duck foes stood top 25 – No. 15 Ohio State – and California, Kentucky, Oregon State and St. Mary’s have picked up votes in current or previous editions.

Overall during head coach Jim Moore’s eight-year tenure, Oregon has now been ranked top 25 for 87 editions (2012-13; 2011-14; ’10-13; ’09-16; ’08-16; ’07-13; ’06-2), including 51 in the top 15, and all 24 of the team’s ever top-10 honors. UO has also scored five, top-three rankings in September and October with its No. 2 rankings in the fifth, sixth and 10th editions of the year, and third-place pollings in the eighth and ninth editions

Among other poll news:
- No. 1 Stanford repeated as the top team in the nation for the third straight week after it won 3-0 at WSU and 3-1 at then-No. 5 Washington.
- No. 2 Penn State won 3-0 at home vs. Illinois and Northwestern.
- No. 3 Texas – won 3-2 at then-No. 23 Kansas and 3-0 at then-No. 17 Kansas State.
- No. 5 UCLA won 3-0 at Colorado and 3-2 at Utah.
- No. 6 Washington 3-2 at home over California and lost 3-1 to No. 1 Stanford in Seattle.
- No. 8 USC won 3-1 at Utah and 3-0 at Colorado.

The complete poll follows at the bottom of this article, and is also available at the AVCA website at the http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-one-women/polls/ URL address.

Voters for this poll are made up of coaches, media and sports information directors from across the country. It will be published weekly each Tuesday leading up to the NCAA Tournament and then a final poll after the NCAA Championship.